venery

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvɛnəri/

Etymology 1

From Middle English venerie, from Middle French, from venerie (“hunting”), from Latin vēnor (“I hunt”).

Noun

venery (plural veneries)

1. The hunting of wild animals.
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

     But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.

2. Game animals.

Derived terms

• beast of venery
• terms of venery

Translations

hunting

French: vènerie (fr) f.

Etymology 2

Mediaeval Latin veneria, from venus (“love”).

Noun

venery (plural veneries)

1. The pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence.